Goddamn I’ve been looking (not too hard) for a “not so terrible” yt-dlp UI and not finding one for a while! This is exactly whay I needed. I recently setup Pinchflat and was thinking about shoehorning downloading from random sources in it. This should solve it.

I concur. Although you can’t get one right away. I think you’d have to wait a few months at this point.

Prolly /c/opensource

I’ll def buy some of these for a camping batt as the B-grade cells get thrown on Ali.

That’s such a big problem…

All true, however the consumers of the finished battery cells would be North American EV production, because there’s large scale battery production in the rest of the world. Maybe the EU could import some. Or maybe they’ll just want raw material for their battery factories. But on our end, as far as I’m aware everyone of the auto manufacturers here is cancelling or scaling down their Canadian EV plans. The EV landscape in the US doesn’t look good either with Trump actively working to undermine them. Point being that without considering the Chinese EVs, the investments that haven’t been cancelled yet, already are at risk. I expect investors being fickle as they are, especially during uncertainty and downturns, to cancel further supply chain investments, unless our gov’t steps in. And I think our gov’t should step in but less to prop them up and more to buy these projects and put them under a crown corp that develops these resources. That still leaves us with the problem of what to put those batteries in. Chinese EVs built here could fulfill that role. Any such work should start early so that it can be operational by the time the batt supply chain is up. As for direct imports, those would compete with ICE vehicles built in NA. That poses a risk to Canadian auto manufacturing since we only build ICE. But we do have a problem with auto prices the rest of the economy so the gov’t has to consider that risk vs the risk of layoffs. For example the price of the F-150 used across the construction industry is a cost for the tradespeople working in it. Finally if we consider the worst case scenario where we get mass layoffs due to Trump’s actions, then the high vehicle price problem would become more significant for a lot of people who have their incomes slashed. That’s where cheaper direct imports could help dampen the impact on our car-dependent economy. If I were Carney, I’d probably model these scenarios and if here’s a benefit, set appropriate taxes/quotas on these EVs to achieve it, and change it as needed to match the rest of the economic context. As for new factories, I’d start those yesterday.

and have a good experience on fedi?

Be excellent to newcomers and each other!

Just three years after Canada called China a “disruptive global power,” Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says Canada now views Beijing as a strategic partner in a dangerous world.

“We must be nuanced in our diplomacy. We must stress our concerns relating to security and public safety on the one hand, and we must seek to build additional supply chains on the other. That is pragmatism,” she said.

A much welcomed change given the US has tanked multiple parts of our economy within less than 9 months of this presidency. And strategic partnership is the right approach. We could also use this as leverage in our negotiations with the US. That is if negotiations resume after the abrupt bullshit Mango Mussolini pulled today.

Can’t make this shit up:

Worse, a lot of US manufacturing is dependent on products of China’s manufacturing output. Destin from SmarterEveryDay tried to make a BBQ brush in America with no foreign components. He couldn’t find chainmail made locally. He bought some supposedly Indian one which turned out to actually be made in China. It’s crazy.

Ouch.

Holy fuck, the avg price for LFP was around $60/kWh last year and this is starting at a third of that.

If power consumption isn’t a huge deal, then an Intel-based Mini PC. This will allow you to do transcoding for streaming as well as any other more CPU-intensive task. It also gives you stellar USB 5Gb support which can be used for quite a large storage pool. I’m running a 5x 16TB ZFS pool on an Intel-based Lenovo mini PC. It’s in a multi-bay USB box. Unfortunately AMD’s pre-Zen 5 USB controllers aren’t reliable for this use case which is why I recommend Intel. Pre-Zen 5 AMD-based mini PCs might be OK with one disk per USB port, but as soon as you peg a USB port to its limit, you start running into USB resets.

TIL: Nexperia also sold itself to a Chinese firm.

Also:

Nexperia produces large volumes of semiconductors in the Netherlands, which are widely used in the automotive industry and consumer electronics. The majority are packaged in China, from where they are sold back into global industries.

If you’re going to nationalize a firm, its operations better be happening entirely within your borders. 🤦

Agreed. It’s got notable, outsized externalities like some other notorious industries like the fossil fuel one.

Well there’s definitely socialist dynamics in FOSS development. Most drivers in the Linux kernel were implemented because someone needed them, not for profit. The same is true for most things in the Debian repository. Also people generally own the means of producing that software. How do proprietary systems produced to maximize profit compete with software written to just work and cost nothing? FOSS is doing software product dumping! :D And the rest of the software economy has grown tremendously as a result. Imagine having to pay good money for a compiler. There were huge barriers back in the day.

The class war almost invariably underpins the other apparent social conflicts.

Social media algos are a product of late stage capitalism. 🥹

services:
  jellyfin:
    image: jellyfin/jellyfin

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Luckily I have auto snapshots on the Jellyfin data dir so restoring it to 10.10.7 was pretty trivial.

Friendly reminder to use snapshotting filesystems for your app data. E.g. ZFS, Btrfs. Then most fuckups can be unfucked with a single zfs rollback.

It’s the FOSS alternative of Plex. If you run Plex or were curious about running Plex, setup Jellyfin. Then setup the arr-stack.

You’re obviously not wrong on the relationships between these variables. There’s however use value in just-good-enough, easy-to-write, bloated software in that it could enable value creation and higher efficiency elsewhere. E.g. a shitty, power-hungry computer vision program that frees up 20 people from doing visual quality inspection of parts in a factory. These people can then do the manual work needed on additional lines, thus increasing the labour efficiency and output of the factory, and lowering the cost of the production per unit. Which frees up resources elsewhere in the economy, increasing the effect. All of which could more than offset the inefficiency of the original program and then some. Of course capitalism won’t necessarily select for these use cases for bloat. More likely than not we’re producing bloat that doesn’t offset anything. But in a non-capitalist environment, such bloat might very well be desired. Especialy if you’re trying to develop at speed that allows you to create deterrents before the US decides to liberate you from non-capitalism.